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Women Call for Obama to Act: Linda Tarr-Whelan, Jacki Zehner

Today marks Women’s Equality Day, the commemoration of women’s suffrage achieved in 1920. What better time to take stock of what’s left to do?

We need a national conversation led by the White House to explore how women decision-makers can help achieve better economic performance and a more prosperous future for all.

The administration of Barack Obama has already taken the first step by appointing talented women — including Mary Schapiro, who holds the top job at the Securities and Exchange Commission; Elizabeth Warren, wh…

Read Connie’s latest blog — and be sure to go to [stirblog.org] to see the kids playing at the playground Connie is building with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan!

WHAT AFGHANS WANT

Connie K. Duckworth / June 28th, 2010

This week, the press has been in full “scoop” mode. Since I am not a reporter, a talking head, a think tank expert, an academic, a government employee (whether military, political or civil), or even a “vampire squid” (although I did spend 20 years at Goldman Sachs), I am certainly insufficiently credentialed to opine on the military or political …

By way of introduction, Connie Duckworth and I worked together at Goldman Sachs. Connie was one of the stars at GS and it was not long before the firm made her a partner. She had a splendid career run at GS.

Like many GS partners, Connie kept blazing ambitious new trails after she left. She founded ARZU, which is an innovative model of social entrepreneurship that helps Afghan women weavers and their families break the cycle of poverty by providing them steady income and access to education and healthcare by sourcing and selling the rugs they weave. While structured as a 501©(3) in…

A recent interview with Diane Blackman (President and co-Founder of BR Public Relations) which truly captures my passion for the women in 85 Broads!

Q: Why should women join 85 Broads?

JH: The primary reason the network exists is simple: smart women want to collaborate and partner with each other in a number of exciting professional and personal ways. But first they need to be encouraged to do that. When women see other women pursuing their goals with passion and vision, they redouble their own efforts. The magic of 85 Broads is that we are a talent cultivator and a business accelerato…

I had the opportunity to have coffee with Gretchen Wallace this morning in Hanover. Gretchen is a very cool member of 85 Broads. She is the founder of an organization that helps, and therefore profits, a lot of women in Rwanda which is why I’m hard pressed to call her org a “non-profit.” Global Grassroots is truly best of class.

As everyone knows, donor dollars are extremely hard to come by. Thousands of organizations have been launched in the past decade to help make the world a better place but “more” is not necessarily synonymous with “better.”

What we need: consolidation a…

85 Broads is hosting an all day conference on Saturday, April 24, 2010 in partnership with (and at) the NYU Stern School of Business.

We have an awesome line up of speakers including Bobby Kennedy, Susan Lyne (CEO of Gilt) Niko Canner (former co-founder of Katzenbach Partners and current senior partner of Booz & Co.) Nomi Ghez, former II ranked analyst and Goldman Sachs partner, and Aswath Damodaran, finance guru and teacher at NYU Stern.

Also speaking: Cindy Padnos, founder of Illuminate Ventures who has written a terrific report on women launching high growth businesses in the tec…

One of my favorite quotes is by John Petit-Senn:

“True courage is like a kite.. a contrary wind raises it higher.”

For the record, I had an amazing career at Goldman Sachs. I got to be part of one of the greatest franchises on the planet – over the last 3 decades I have had the opportunity to contribute to so many amazing organizations, my own family, and to 85 Broads — all because I got a shot at the title — to join a firm that allowed me to share my wealth with so many others.

While at Goldman Sachs, I worked with some of the best and brightest people in the business – I had…

From Jacki:

I wanted to share with you two pieces I have co-written with my dear friend Katharine Henderson, President of Auburn Seminary, and JC Austin. I am sure you have read about Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein saying ( tongue and cheek) that he was doing “God’s Work.” What an opportunity to write about God and Goldman! In response we wrote this piece “Can Goldman Find God?” [thedailybeast.com] In the article we call on Goldman to create a fund to help address the problem of job loss in this country. I would love to …

Why are Goldman’s Women Invisible?
Huffington Post: October 31, 2008
by Jacki Zehner

Wednesday Goldman Sachs & Co. announced their new class of Partners and yesterday they announced their new Managing Directors. Twelve years ago I was one of those fortunate people who got the call inviting me into the partnership of the firm. The year I made it, I was one of two women out of a total of thirty-eight bringing the grand total at that point in time up to twelve. I was the youngest woman and only female trader to be made a partner. I thought I was now part of the club.

It turned out not t…